Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Innocent people do not delay justice.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

The lights are all blinking red.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Giving up is unforgivable.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

We still have time to mess this up!

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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  4. 4.

    Skepticat

    And Poliquin in Maine’s Second District is demanding a hand recount because he doesn’t like the results of ranked-choice voting.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    A hopeful side benefit is that the scale of the win will put some fear into GOP Senators who are up in 2020.

  8. 8.

    Turgidson

    Still disappointed Hunter and Nunes held on and that Audrey Denney didn’t get closer to the upset. But definitely a good result overall.

  9. 9.

    Ohio Mom

    @MomSense: And why in the video of Melania inspecting her atrocious INDOOR red forest is she wearing a coat? Is the White House not warm enough for her? Can’t she get the thermostat turned up?

    She was wearing a coat as she strolled through the White House in last year’s Christmas decorations video too.

    Back to the topic, Very thrilled. I also hope that these extended voting counts, that go on for weeks after Election Day, get lots of publicity and are normalized. I want there to be widespread acceptance that accuracy, not speed, is what we’re going for.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @Ohio Mom

    Expect it is a deliberate move – likely an ironclad directive – to appear as opposite to Michelle Obama’s sleeveless couture as possible.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Ohio Mom:

    And why in the video of Melania inspecting her atrocious INDOOR red forest is she wearing a coat?

    At least she finally figured out how to put her arms in the sleeves.

  17. 17.

    A Ghost To Most

    @trollhattan: Sorry, CO is currently refilling its tanks, and is unavailable for requests. We would send weed, but I believe you got that covered.

    Could we help with the raking?

  22. 22.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    Kern County has been red for a long time. The last Demcratic presid3ntial candidate to carry Kern County was Johnson (yes, raven, fuck LBJ). In honor of this conversion, here are Dwight Yoakum and Buck Owens together on The Streets of Bakersfield

  29. 29.

    FlyingToaster

    @MomSense: All the relevant tweets are saying it’s HorrorShowXmasDecorations 2.0.

    I swear to dog, that woman has no taste whatsoever. Fugly decor beyond belief.

  30. 30.

    feebog

    California has 53 congressional districts. Republicans only held 14 of them. We cut that number in half. Pretty awesome.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    @feebog: Sometime soon, I expect calls to go out to preserve the endangered California Republican. I imagine it would start with radio collar tracking of the remaining free-range specimens[*], but ultimately I think the species will have to be preserved in zoos and maintained through a captive breeding program.

    [*] Duncan Hunter gets a radio anklet.

  39. 39.

    mad citizen

    Funny, before checking in on BJ I was just thinking how little mainstream play “The Blue Wave” has received. Whatever. Next time, “Blue Tsunami!”

  41. 41.

    Emma

    @MomSense: Ah… it’s a photoshop, folks. Someone even tracked the scene in the show where it was taken from.

    Or is my sense of humor about the Trumps so dead I missed you were joking?

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @feebog:
    Is there a Zeno’s Paradox for CA Republican congressmen? Perhaps at some point we’ll be sending y’all 0.5 Devin Nunes.

  45. 45.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @Major Major Major Major: The Trumps’ Xmas decors seem like sets for horror movies. Is there any rationale behind them at all??

    I simply fail to see the point.

    In my memory, conservative Christmas trees always have a star at the top of the tree. And WHERE IS THE MANGER SCENE? It’s either under the tree or on a table or something next to the tree.

    And many of these families have a train set or lighted village scene under the tree.

    Have Franklin Graham. Jim Bakker, John Hagee, …. been asked what THEY think of the Trumps’ Christmas trees?

  46. 46.

    Schlemazel

    @MomSense: she is bringing her favorite dream to life. Rivers of blood flowing down the Walls of the White House. Oceans of Scarlett a tsunami of human claret.

  47. 47.

    Mandalay

    @Turgidson:

    Still disappointed Hunter and Nunes held on…

    While it certainly would have been better for Hunter to lose, his continued presence in Congress still does more harm than good to the Republicans, and the same goes for Chris Collins. I’m doubtful that either of them will complete their terms.

    And in January Nunes will become a complete nobody.

  48. 48.

    Kraux Pas

    @Schlemazel: Maybe she’s depicting the legal bloodbath her husband is about to undergo. It’s possible Melania is trying to act out against the administration by using design choices. Maybe the “I really don’t care” jacket was her statement on official White House policy.

  49. 49.

    Shana

    @Ohio Mom: I thought that was weird too, but then I noticed that it seems she’s walking along the outdoor colonnade that runs outside the Oval to another part of the White House. Although she did seem to have her coat and gloves on while walking through the rest of the WH.

  50. 50.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Major Major Major Major:

    How did the balloon-juice victory fund end up doing?

    I’ve been keeping a list of BJ victory-fund victories:

    [1st Balloon Juice group]
    Colin Allred TX-32
    Cindy Axne IA-03
    Anthony Brindisi NY-22
    Sean Casten IL-06
    Gil Cisneros CA-39
    Angie Craig MN-02
    Jason Crow CO-06
    Sharice Davids KS-03
    Antonio Delgado NY-19
    Abby Finkenauer IA-01
    Lizzie Pannill Fletcher TX-07
    Jared Golden ME-02
    Josh Harder CA-10
    Katie Hill CA-25
    Andy Kim NJ-03
    Ann Kirkpatrick AZ-02
    Conor Lamb PA-17
    Mike Levin CA-49
    Elaine Luria VA-02
    Tom Malinowski NJ-07
    Lizzie Pannill Fletcher TX-07
    Dean Phillips MN 03
    Katie Porter CA-45
    Harley Rouda CA-48
    Kim Schrier WA-08
    Mikie Sherrill NJ-11
    Elissa Slotkin MI-08
    Abigail Spanberger VA-07
    Haley Stevens MI-11
    Xochitl Torres Small NM-02
    Jennifer Wexton VA-10
    Susan Wild PA-07

    [2nd Balloon Juice group]
    Jahana Hayes CT-05
    Ben McAdams UT-04
    Lucy McBath GA-06
    Greg Stanton AZ-09
    Lauren Underwood IL-14
    (Antonio Delgado & Kim Schrier were in both 1st and 2nd group)

    [3rd Balloon Juice group]
    Joe Cunningham SC-01
    Kendra Horn OK-05
    * * *

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    @Emma:

    There really are red trees in the White House. They are not Photoshopped. You can watch the official video unveiling, if you have the stomach for it.

    They are not the only trees, but they’re very prominent.

  53. 53.

    Ohio Mom

    @Shana: I’m pretty sure I saw windows on both sides of the hallway in the video, and Melania keeps her coat on during the rest of her wandering through the White House winter wonderland.

    I rewatched last year’s video and she’s wearing a coat (draped over her shoulders, natch) in many of the scenes, including during a visit to the kitchen where the pastry chefs are baking cookies. It isn’t warm in a room with giant ovens roaring away?
    The rest of the time she is wearing a big fuzzy sweater.

    The other weird aspect of the videos is that Melania roams the White House in perfect solitude, except when she is consulting with staff decorators and chefs. Hardly conveys the sense that Christmas is a family holiday — or that the White House is a busy place.

    How is your mother-in-law doing? Still holding on?

  54. 54.

    Emma

    @Mnemosyne: Eeek. I saw a photoshop with images of handmaid’s tale costumes where the trees would be and I assumed… *scurries off to look* OH JESUS MY EYES. MY RETINAS ARE FALLING OFF!

  56. 56.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    And another one gone, and another one gone
    Another one bites the dust
    Hey, I’m gonna get you, too
    Another one bites the dust

  57. 57.

    Mike in DC

    So, in addition to defending these seats in 2020, we can target the three seats the Rs flipped, plus about 50 we didn’t get this time. In 2008 we grabbed another 20 seats. The Senate will be the big prize on the “undercard”, but the more we can pad our majority in 2020, the better we can withstand a first midterm under a D president.

  58. 58.

    sukabi

    @Ohio Mom: I think she’s creating Dante’s circles of hell…last year was bleak and desolate, this year we’re getting closer to the flaming pit…

  59. 59.

    Martin

    California flipped 7 seats. Republicans held 14 of the 53 house seats here, and now they have 7 to Democrats 46. And I’m assuming we’ll have a special election in CA-50 before 2020.

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